Nut-holder and joint-supporter for railroad-rails.



G. W. HENRY, s3. NUT HOLDER AND JOINT SUPPORTER FOR RAILROAD RAILS.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 26, 1907.-

Patented Dec. 14, i909.

' Nut-Holders and Joint-Supportersfor vvi with an alternative method of hinge ma .Usirrro esonse w. HENRY, or 211161 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W.

. o. ,N S12, a citlzen or the Ullltfiki rotates, 1e in McLean county, and State oi: iiili'iOlS, have invented a new and useful Berle" road-Rails, of which the fOiiDNlIl is c fication.

My invention relates to improveme nut holders and jo iniv suppo'rrers ii roml rails; and the objects of my 2 ment ere, first, to provide :1v .look o to prevent the turnin oi the nuts H fastening; railroad rails; and second, 'vicie an additional support. for the railroad mils. ll attain these ooj device illustrated in the accompan in s, in Which,-

iigure l is 2. side View of the holcler in piece; Fig. 2 is e vertical of the inside holder detaches Fig. Vertical View of the outside holder detache ing; and F21 4 is a cross section ihrough one of the bolts-of the railroad rail.

Similar letters refer to similar throughout the several views.

T he device consists of two an uiarly she bars of any suitable nielal, prejrferuhly i able iron, of length equal to that of rho o nary fish or angle bars used on railrourl and of a thickness equal to that of the used on said rails, or 0% e thickness less this if desired, and adjusted i-o on. side of every joint in the rail.

The upper part, or edge, M, of each as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, is made to it squarely under the nuts, A-A, fitted to the bolts, 5, which pass through the railroad rail, D, and the fish hers, CC, of ordinary railroad me, thus completely locking them and preveniir *he' r turning; the same result is obtsinecl hai the bolts of reiiroecl use are tur' ed inward it each joint and half out-whirl, 33c: as there are two bars the inner, 2, outer, Fig. 3, the upper edge of each 5% mediately uncler the bolt-heads nuts, i A.

In Fig. 3 an alternative ior l is which the upper edge of one he]: is cu vicling a series of projections edepterl of the nuts used for fastening railroad rails, name to this specification in the presence 01" an angular prolongation on each bar passing two subscribing Witnessesw over the edges oi the railroad rails at its GEORGE V7, HENRY, SR. joint and across its entire Width on the undel side, with notches in the lower 023 each bar adapted to receive fastening spikes.

AS. 1 LAMBDIN,

edge :idapted to fis under and on twe sides In testimony whereof I have sighed my 1 1 BLAKE 

